NOVEMBER 2. 197
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. PASADENA. CALIFORNIA
Lack of Time Overlap Game
And Homecoming Coronation
that had previously been judged by a
committee of four composed of alumni
Lane Prior and Eric Srutt and students
John Booker and Shannon Nishi.
The funniest float award went to the
Pep Squad, the most original award
went to the Adelphians’ “Little House
on the Buick” float and the best theme
award was given MECHA.
Following the game a reception in
the Hall of Fame room in the men’s
gym drew nearly 100 alumni, while in
the Campus Center the student body
discoed until 1 a.m.
By Katrin Wegelius
Fine Arts Editor
The coronation of the 1979 Home¬
coming Queen Debe Pabon had to
compete with the action on the football
field when halftime activities ran over¬
time. The queen was crowned during
the first two minutes of the second half
of the game.
The bad timing of the events, accord¬
ing to Kauti, was due to changes made
from previous Homecomings. Until
this year, the crowning had always
taken place before the game. Follow¬
ing a request from the Homecoming
Committee, the coronation was sched¬
uled for halftime so it could be held in
front of a full audience.
Unfortunately, after the per¬
formance of the two marching bands,
the parade of the dignitaries and win¬
ning floats and the presentation of the
honored guests, there was no time left.
Kauti managed to extend halftime by
five minutes, but it still was not suffi¬
cient. The queen had to be crowned
with the struggling of the two teams in
the background adding to the bruhaha.
Apart from the coronation, the rest
of Homecoming was conducted accord¬
ing to the schedule.
Depicting the theme “Changing
Times,” the events started with a
parade of old cars ranging from a 1913
Ford Touring Car to a 1951 Chevrolet
Fleetline, furnished by the Vintage
Chevrolet Club of America, Inc.
Following the cars came the floats
Homecoming
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A SB Declines To Supervise
New Student Trustee Election
Homecoming Queen Deborah Ann
Pabon was critically injured while
riding her moped Tuesday morning.
According to Pasadena Police, Ms.
Pabon was struck by an eastbound
vehicle while making a left turn from
California Boulevard south onto
Marengo Avenue.
She is currently in the intensive
care unit at Huntington Memorial
Hospital.
At press time the hospital listed her
condition as critical but declined to
give out additional information about
the nature of her injuries.
Learning of the seriousness of her
condition, a number of her friends
from Circle K, a community service
club on campus, gathered Wednesday
night to pray for her at a local church.
with the tight money situation we have
right now.”
The board also appointed four stu¬
dents to the Supreme Council: Norman
Ortiz, Shelia Davis, Don Rutherford
and Elizabeth Lominac. Supreme
Council members decide on the con¬
stitutionality of decisions made by the
ASB board and the student senate. The
appointments still must be ratified by
the senate.
After the board vote, Coleman said
he would send a letter to Dr. Lewis
informing him of the board’s decision
immediately.
In other business the board passed an
Assemblies Policy which limits As¬
semblies Commissioner Richard
Franklin to a maximum rate of $35 per
band. If a band charges more than $35,
Franklin must come to the board for
approval. “I basically think it’s a good
policy,” said Ms. Hutchins, “especially
By Mark Haines
Staff Writer
The ASB Executive Board voted
unanimously not to conduct the new
election for Student Trustee at its Oct.
26 meeting. The Oct. 3 and 4 election
was voided by Dr. Irvin Lewis, vice
president for student personnel ser¬
vices, after an investigation prompted
by a Courier article cited election
irregularities.
In the article, candidate Terry Rob¬
ertson charged that the election was
illegal because the winning candidate,
Michael Tiberi, had been allowed to
file after the filing deadline. Although
Robertson never officially contested
the election, Dr. Lewis set new election
dates of Nov. 5 and 6.
“I don’t think we should say ‘Okay,
we’ll run another election for you,’ ”
said Sophomore Class President Bobbi
Villalobos. “If none of the other can¬
didates complained, then why should
we run another election?”
Queen Deborah Pabon and escort Jim Parade
New Trustee Election
Tiberi and Toth Rerun
Campus Radio Station Scheduled To
Broadcast Old Fashioned Mystery Play
and responsible student representation
is very important in the educational
process.”
Tiberi is currently president of Cir¬
cle K, a service club on campus. He has
previously served as the treasurer for
Circle
К
as well as student senate
president. Tiberi has also “served on
key committees throughout the school
as a voice for the students.” He also
says he has “put two years of hard
work in this school securing the rights
of students and solving their prob¬
lems.”
The election will be run by the
administration because the ASB Ex¬
ecutive Board has decided not to han¬
dle it. According to Dr. Lewis, staff
members will man the polls during
voting hours. The polls will be open
from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8
p.m.
Michael Tiberi and Peter Toth are
the only candidates in the Nov. 5 and 6
student trustee election.
Both candidates ran in the Oct. 3 and
4 election in which Tiberi was declared
the winner. However, that election was
voided by Dr. Irvin Lewis, vice presi¬
dent for student personnel services
because Tiberi was allowed to file after
the deadline.
Tiberi also ran for the position in the
election last spring but lost to current
ASB President Derek Coleman. Col¬
eman was forced to resign as trustee in
August due to his failure to maintain
the required grade point average.
Toth currently holds the position of
Associated Men Students President on
the ASB Executive Board. He has
previously been involved with the stu¬
dent senate and various other student
activities,. Toth feels that “productive
“We are using people you have never
heard of, some amazing performances,
and we are always looking for new
talent,” Girard said. “We are hoping to
develop a whole new generation of
young radio actors and hopefully
writers ... I’d love to see some stories
about writers— from writers.”
Airing on Nov. 9 will be the play
“Weekend Vacation,” in which the
typical American family becomes
isolated at a remote motel with an old
woman and her demented grandson. It
will be followed by “Trust Me Darling,
I Love You,” and on Nov. 23 the station
will air “For My Next Trick.”
Girard wrote seven of the current
plays, and Roger Rittner, director of
the series, wrote the other two.
The play is an experiment in this new
radio format, according to Girard. “I
felt it would be fun to try to tell a story
with suspense, chills, horror and dra¬
ma within a half-hour format,” said
Girard. It also contains a different,
dark humor, because “today’s au¬
dience is more sophisticated ; it doesn’t
want to be ‘told’ jokes.”
Claude, the program host, is presi¬
dent of the Tombsters Union and on
Halloween, he sings, “Thank heaven
for little ghouls, they grow up in such
unnatural ways.”
A cast of established stars such as
Don Diamond, Joan and Betty
Caulfield, Lucille Bliss and Michael
Rye have roles in the series. They are
ably supported by talented newcomers,
according to Girard.
KPCS (89.3 FM), the on-campus
community radio station, will broad¬
cast an original radio mystery play,
“Can’t You Do Anything Right?”, on
Friday, Nov. 2, at 11:30 p.m. The play
is part of the series “Darkness,” which
was written and produced by Ken
Girard and is being broadcast ex¬
clusively on three National Public Ra¬
dio stations.
“ ‘Darkness’ is more than just a
throwback to the golden days of radio,”
said Girard. “We now have a whole
new generation which does not want to
be told a story but wants to be involved
in a story and follow the action of the
actors. ‘Darkness’ is a movie format
adapted for radio in the best oral
tradition.”
' ASB Vice President Charlotte
Hutchins agreed with Miss Villalobos.
“I don’t believe we should hold it,”
she said. “I think it’s their (the admin¬
istration’s) election.”
ASB President Derek Coleman said
the the board “could end up suffering
more” by not directing the election.
“If we vote not to hold it (the election),
then I’m all for it,” he said. “But when
you don’t cooperate with the other guy,
when it comes time for him to cooper¬
ate with you, he won’t.”
Candidates Present Their Views on Campus issues
Area 2 Trustee Hopefuls Participate in Public Forum
By Tom Pfeiffer
Staff Writer
Three of the four candidates for the
Area 2 Board of Trustees seat partici¬
pated in a public forum sponsored by
the League of Women Voters last week.
November 6 election candidates
Gary Adams, Mario Sewell and
Krystyna Yokaitis all supported the
establishment of a child care center,
“if needed,” but differed in their opin¬
ions as to how it should be funded.
They also expressed similar views
concerning the Courier’s policy and the
seating of a student representative on
the Board of Trustees.
The fourth candidate, Joe Piliero,
did not attend the Oct. 26 seminar,
instead he sent a written declaration of
his platform.
He stated that the major issue facing
the college was that of funding and the
source of such funding. “I will support
federal funding,” said Piliero.
He also advocated the improvement
of special education classes and classes
for the handicapped. He stated he felt a
need to alleviate the bottle neck as¬
sociated with registration and to im¬
prove the parking situation on campus.
“Other areas of interest will be
funding the women’s center, student
loans, affirmative action programs and
student rights,” according to Piliero’s
statement.
Adams, the first speaker of the
night, expressed his support for both a
child care center and a women’s center
“if needed.”
However, he was very much opposed
to funding either project with federal
funds because such funding would prob¬
ably be subtracted directly from the
instructional program at the college.
Adams reported that Long Beach
State has had a privately funded child
care center for some time and that it
has been highly successful.
He was also strongly opposed to
student grants. “The pot that it comes
out of is not an endless pot,” said
Adams. He said students who receive
such “gifts” place little value on them
and do not do well in school.
He said he was very much in favor of
student guaranteed loans as long as
they were paid back. He said he would
prefer extending the deadline for the
loans rather than allow them to go
unpaid.
He also was in favor of fellowships
and scholarships “because the latter
two are earned, usually in competition
with other students, and are based on
GPA.”
Adams described the student news¬
paper as a mechanism to communicate
ideas on campus, and said that the
paper “should be given the maximum
amount of freedom to do whatever it
needs to do.”
He did state, however, that as a tax-
supported newspaper, “the Courier had
some responsibility for neutrality.”
On the issue of a student trustee,
Adams stated he was in favor of having
a student on the Board to give addi¬
tional informational input. However,
college must change its programs to fit
the changing population of students,
which he said now averages 27-28 years
of age.
Due to the large number of returning
students, Sewell said he supported a
child care center. “Many people can¬
not attend PCC without a child care
center,” he said.
He claimed that PCC has all the
ingredients for one of the finest child
care centers in the state, and he said
that such a center could be established
at minimal cost to the district.
Sewell said the law concerning the
student newspaper is “very clear. I
will uphold the law.” According to the
law, he said, “free expression by the
students cannot be limited,” except in
cases of libel, etc.
Sewell also believed in the need for a
student trustee but, like Adams, felt
the student should not be allowed to
vote on the Board and should not be
allowed to attend executive sessions.
The final speaker of the evening,
Mrs. Yokaitis, described herself as “a
woman with the time to serve.” She
claimed that time should be an impor¬
tant issue in the election.
Dr. Gary Adams
Mario Sewell
She believed that PCC must strive to
retain its high academic level and that
■ funding should be better utilized.
She believed the best way to improve
the curriculum would be to provide
more technical and vocational train¬
ing. She said that women returning to
the job market should be a major
concern of the college.
However, she said she was not in
favor of establishing a women’s center,
“but a center for everyone.” Mrs.
Yokaitis explained that if a women’s
center was established, then a men’s
center would need to be established,
and so on down the line until every
little group had a center.
“You can polarize everyone,” said
Mrs. Yokaitis. She said the problem of
returning women is already being han¬
dled by classes designed for those
women.
As far as establishing a child care
center, Mrs. Yokaitis said she would be
in favor of such, if the need could be
justified. “The numbers involved
would need to be evaluated," she said.
She also strongly advocated that the
Courier be given all the freedom it
wants. “If you do not permit students
freedom of expression, then they will
go underground,” she said.
She criticized the current Board’s
decision to seek legal counsel in the
matter after it had already received an
opinion from County Counsel. “We do
not need to fight this issue continuous¬
ly,” she said.
he was was opposed to allowing the
student trustee an actual vote on the
Board and did not believe the student
should be allowed in executive ses¬
sions.
He stated that most students at PCC
were old enough to vote and therefore
already had a vote in choosing a voting
member on the Board. Allowing the
student trustee a vote would in reality
give students two votes.
Sewell, the second speaker of the
evening, described PCC as the “educa¬
tional center of the entire communi¬
ty.” He voiced his belief that the
— Photos courtesy of the Chronicle
Krystyna Yokaitis